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By Sanjida Sultana View Document The National Symposium on the International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD) 2025, held on 4 December 2025 at the Bangladesh-China Friendship Conference Center,...

Publications

Negotiating Social Norms: Expanding Women’s Capabilities andEconomic Agency

Mirza Nayeem Mahmud - December 30, 2025

By Arju Afrin Kathy View Document This field-based qualitative study examines the gendered empowerment outcomes of theStrengthening Women’s Ability for Productive New Opportunities (SWAPNO) project of UNDPBangladesh, drawing on...

Publications

Workshop Report on Youth Perspectives on the Future of Social Protection in Bangladesh

Mirza Nayeem Mahmud - December 30, 2025

By Arju Afrin Kathy View Document The report documents an inception workshop that engaged 50 university students from across Bangladesh to inform the formulation of the Next Generation National...

Vital Information

IDPD 2025

Disability-Inclusive Climate and Disaster Resilience (LoGIC Project, UNDP)

IDPD 2025

Empowering Persons with Disabilities through Enhanced Accessibility and Digital Inclusion (Access Bangladesh Foundation)

IDPD 2025

Community Based Inclusive Child Protection: Strengthening Caregiver Support, Community Engagement and Wellbeing of Children with Disabilities in Bangladesh (CSID)

IDPD 2025

Assessing the quality of early learning environments in rural Government pre- primary classrooms in Bangladesh (icddr,b)

IDPD 2025

Inclusive Education Project: Disability Inclusive Development(CDD)

Strategic Consideration: Sustaining Social Protection amid Inflation and Rising Vulnerability

Persons with DisabilitesMirza Nayeem Mahmud - January 8, 2026

IDPD Summary Report

Implementing Ministries

Implementing Ministrymahfuzul.bari - August 20, 2017

Ministry of Women and Children Affairs

Implementing Ministrymahfuzul.bari - August 20, 2017

Ministry of Liberation War Affairs

Implementing Ministrymahfuzul.bari - August 20, 2017

Ministry of Agriculture

Implementing Ministrymahfuzul.bari - August 20, 2017

Ministry of Chittagong Hill Tracts Affairs

Implementing Ministrymahfuzul.bari - August 20, 2017

Ministry of Labour and Employment

Implementing Ministrymahfuzul.bari - August 20, 2017

Ministry of Food

Implementing Ministrymahfuzul.bari - August 20, 2017

Local Government Division

Implementing Ministrymahfuzul.bari - August 20, 2017

Rural Development and Cooperatives Division

Implementing Ministrymahfuzul.bari - August 20, 2017

Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief

Coordinating Ministries

SDG LocalizationMirza Nayeem Mahmud - January 29, 2026

Local Collective Action for Accelerating SDGs

InforaphicsMirza Nayeem Mahmud - January 27, 2026

Social Security Policy Support (SSPS) Programme Overview (Draft)

InforaphicsMirza Nayeem Mahmud - January 27, 2026

ICVGD Phase II Endline Highlights (2019–2025)

One-pagerMirza Nayeem Mahmud - January 11, 2026

Strategic Consideration: Sustaining Social Protection amid Inflation and Rising Vulnerability

Persons with DisabilitesMirza Nayeem Mahmud - January 8, 2026

IDPD Summary Report

COVID-19

April 13, 2020

করোনার প্রভাব কাটাতে সরকারের ৪ ‘মূল কার্যক্রম’

August 7, 2020

Digital payment solutions the way forward

July 8, 2020

Only eligible persons to receive govt cash assistance following scrutiny: PM

July 9, 2020

Food Aid Before Eid: Free rice for 1 crore poor

Facts

Local Collective Action for Accelerating SDGs

January 29, 2026

Social Security Policy Support (SSPS) Programme Overview (Draft)

January 27, 2026

ICVGD Phase II Endline Highlights (2019–2025)

January 27, 2026

Strategic Consideration: Sustaining Social Protection amid Inflation and Rising Vulnerability

January 11, 2026

IDPD Summary Report

January 8, 2026

Minutes of the 6th meeting of the Project Implementation Committee (PIC) of the Social Protection Policy Support Programme (SSPS) held on 13th November 2025

January 7, 2026

Latest Articles

Op-ed

Can Bangladesh become a welfare state?

mahfuzul.bari - March 12, 2017

Published: The Daily Star 17 July 2017, 12:00 AM By Göran Jonsson Senior Programme Adviser UNDP Bangladesh "The National Social Security Strategy approved by the Cabinet in 2015 points...

Social Security Programme

Allowances for Distressed Cultural Personalities/Activists

mahfuzul.bari - March 4, 2017

Agency (Ministry/Division/Department): Ministry of Cultural Affairs Cultural Personalities and Activists earn their money but when they are sick they cannot work and face financial difficulties. In...

Social Security Programme

Water Supply and Sanitation Project in Cyclone Prone Sidr Affected Coastal Area

mahfuzul.bari - March 4, 2017

Agency (Ministry/Division/Department): Ministry of Local Government Rural Development and Cooperatives Background and Objective (when the programme started and in what context): The Objectives of the Project are: 1)...

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Action Plan - Phase II

National Social Security Strategy (NSSS) Action Plan (2021-2026) Phase II Progress Report 2024

National Social Security Strategy (NSSS) Action Plan (2021-2026) Phase II Progress Report 2023

Dissemination Workshop on NSSS Action Plan, Phase – II (2021-26) held

Disability and Social Protection

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Listening to the Stories of Persons with Disabilities

mahfuzul.bari - May 25, 2022

https://socialprotection.gov.bd/beta/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Listening-to-the-Stories-of-Persons-with-Disabilities.pdf

Listening to the Stories of Persons with Disabilities

mahfuzul.bari - May 22, 2022

View Document This report on the Workshop on Social Protection: Person with Disabilities- Lives and Programming held on 21st...

Concept Note for Pilot Study on Universal Social Protection for Persons with Disabilities (PWDs)

April 3, 2022

Workshop on Social Protection: Persons with Disabilities – Lives and Programming held on 21 March 2022

March 21, 2022

প্রতিবন্ধী ব্যক্তিদের সমাজে অংশগ্রহণ ও নেতৃত্বের বিকাশ প্রয়োজন

December 6, 2021

National Seminar for Ensuring Wider Disability-Inclusion in the Social Protection Policies and Programmes in Bangladesh

December 4, 2021

Workshop on Making Disability-Inclusive Social Security Policies and Programmes in Bangladesh

December 3, 2020

Govt Social Security Allowance – Online verification shines hope on 30 thousand aspirants in 6 upazilas

October 13, 2020

Elderly, disabled and widows to get safety net allowances through MFS

September 1, 2020

Perception Study – Situation Analysis of Person with Disabilities in Bangladesh and role of Social Protection

March 3, 2020

Old Age

Concept Note on Pilot Study on Universal Old Age Allowance (OAA) in Bangladesh

mahfuzul.bari - April 4, 2022

View Document Bangladesh is rapidly advancing towards an aging country. The speed at which Bangladesh is likely to transition from the “aging” to...

Elderly, disabled and widows to get safety net allowances through MFS

September 1, 2020

Reimagining social protection for older people

October 1, 2019

GRS

Enhancing Social Protection Governance through Grievance Redress System

mahfuzul.bari - November 14, 2019

View Document For fair and equitable administration of social protection programmes, GRS is considered as an important tool in many countries. The Government...